Measuring vessel.



` Patented May 2|, |901.

C. P. HAEGG. MEASURING VESSEL.

(Application filed Oct. 5, 19O0.\y

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OEETCE.

CARL PONTUS HAEGG, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS.

MEASURING VESSEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 674,503, dated May 21, 1901. Application tiled October 5, 1900. Serial No. 32.195. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom. t may concer-n,.-

Be it known that I, CARL PoNTUs HAEGG, a citizen of the United States of America, residing in the city of Rockford, in the county of Winnebago and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Measuring Vessels, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce a measuring vessel with a downwardly collapsible or opening bottom to adapt it to discharge its contents through such bottom into a bag or other receptacle; and it consists, essentially, of the employment of -a bottom composed of triangular segments hinged by their bases to the perimeter of an opening in the bottom of the vessel-body, each segment composing the same having a lug projecting laterally therefrom under an adjacent segment to support the same, and means for operating the segments to open or close such bottom whenever desired.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which form apart of this specification, Figure 1 is a vertical section, through the line 1 l in Fig. 2, of a measuring vessel embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the same complete. Fig. 3 is a vertical section, through the line 3 3 in Fig. 2, of the parts there shown. Fig. 4 is a detailed view showing a locking-lever connecting the bottom of the measuring vessel with the side thereof for the purpose of holding such bottom closed.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

A is a measuring vessel having an opening defined by the perimeter A in the bottom A2 thereof, the opening being in this instance hexagonal in form and provided with an inclined slot A3, extending therethrough andA having sustaining-notches A4 in the lower edge thereof, for a purpose to be explained hereinafter.q

B represents triangular segments hinged by their bases at B to the perimeter A of the opening in the bottom A2 of the vessel-body,

each having a lug b2 projecting laterally,

A therefrom under an adjacent segment to support the same and their apices meeting at a common point B4 when the bottom of the vessel is closed.

C is a locking-arm hinged by its lower end Cto the upper side of one of the triangular segments B, its upper end bending and eX- tending outward through the inclined slot A3 in the vessel-body and being adapted to engage the sustaining-notches A4 and being f provided with a knob O2 at its extreme outer end.

D represents stops which prevent the segments B from opening too widely and also serve to maintain them all at substantially the same angle of inclination.

When the upper end of the locking-arm C is in the upper notch A4, Figs. l and 4, the bottom of, the vessel will be closed. If the locking-arm be disengaged from the upper notch and shifted to the lower notch A4, the segments B composing the vessel-bottom will swing downward to the positions indicated by dotted lines in Fig. l, and the contents thereof will pass downward and out of the vessel into any'desired receptacle.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is*

l. In a measuring vessel, in combination,

a vessel-body having an opening in the bot-V projecting laterally therefrom under an adjacent segment, to support the same, and a locking-arm connecting the vessel-body with the bottom, to keep -it closed, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CARL PONTUS HAEGG.

Witnesses:

L. L. MORRISON, NELLIE BUNKER. 

